Chart of the Day: Who is Suing Who In the Mobile Patent Wars?
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Bad communication is bad business. →
Matt Drance has been on fire lately with some very thoughtful posts over at Apple Outsider. On the Google vs Microsoft mud slinging contest over a lost bidding war for patents;
Matt Drance:
The first failure was lack of clarity: specifically, letting the Chief Legal Officer write nearly 500 words of unstructured whining. How many ordinary people understand lawyers, let alone sympathize with them? A piece of communication this important should have been painstakingly reviewed: its prose; its tone; its presentation; its source; and my goodness, its facts. It’s quite clear that nobody examined the post with a level head.
He concludes:
The sad thing about all of this is that the patent system in our industry is in fact horribly, cynically broken. Google had a terrific opportunity to make that case and shift public opinion in its (and I believe in the long term, everyone’s) favor. Instead, it cried like a rich kid who lost an auction.
Definitely worth a read.
Appsterdam unites indies against Patent Trolls →
Mike Lee:
Let App Makers be as the ants of East Texas, minding their business until someone invades their anthill. Then Swarm! Swarm! Swarm! We will let the patent trolls know: if you attack one indie, you attack all indies, and we will file every motion we can against you, we will attack your patents, and we will show you for the mafioso thugs you are.
Playing Monopoly →
Thanks to the patent system, the tech market is looking more like Parker Brothers’ “Monopoly” game every day
It’s kind of sad that we’ve reached the point where every time a tech company passes “Go” in Silicon Valley, they have to sweat over landing on someone’s patented hotel space and cough up billions of dollars if they want to keep playing.
